On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 13:29 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:32:43PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:23:32PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > 1) yum-updatesd. Daemon that sits on dbus brokering off requests > > > Could this part be oddjobd? > > Actually talked with Nalin about it yesterday on the way home, but > > oddjob doesn't give us periodic activation, having the helper be a > > singleton, the caching that we're doing, and a few other things > > I think periodic activation is best handled by cron, insomuch as that's what > it's there for. Some very tiny script called from cron can send the "go now" > signal. I'd really like to avoid the proliferation of system-helper daemons, > particularly when we've got parts that already would be able to do most of > the work. The Unix Way and all that.
Except that cron sucks a lot for systems which aren't always on. Also, it's kind of a moot point here because until the old dbus interface of yum-updatesd completely goes away, we have to have a daemon to be able to handle some of the compatibility fun. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
